With Grow-your-own Programs, New Teachers Find Job-embedded Support

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With grow-your-own programs, new teachers find job-embedded support

By Kristin Trompeter and Stephanie Garcia-Fields

Categories: Learning designs, Learning systems/planning, Mentoring & induction, Reaching all students

August 2022

Like many districts across the U.S., Miami-Dade County Public Schools is experiencing a large number of open staff positions due to higher-than-normal numbers of retirements and resignations in the face of COVID-19 coupled with enrollment declines in local universities’ education departments. Recent data show that the district has many openings not only in the traditionally hard-to-staff areas of math, science, and exceptional student education, but even in English language arts. The district, in partnership with New Teacher Center, has been working to address this gap through grow-your-own teacher recruitment pathways. Grow-your-own programs are pathways into the teaching profession for individuals who do not have a background in education but aspire to teach and who live or work in the neighborhoods in which a school is

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References

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Kristin Trompeter

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Kristin Trompeter (ktrompeter@dadeschools.net) is instructional supervisor in the Office of Professional Development and Evaluation at Miami-Dade County Public Schools.